Caribbean Economy, 1875–1985 · CSEC Caribbean History

32 past-paper questions on Caribbean Economy, 1875–1985, part of Section B, from every CSEC Caribbean History paper on Quelpr.

Practise Caribbean Economy, 1875–1985

11(a)15 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2005 · Paper 2Outline the MAJOR problems faced by the British Caribbean sugar industry from the 1880s to 1914.
11(b)10 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2005 · Paper 2Describe FOUR policies used by planters to overcome problems in the sugar industry from the 1880s to 1914.
12(a)16 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2005 · Paper 2Outline FOUR reasons why manufacturing industries increased in the British Caribbean after 1940.
12(b)9 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2005 · Paper 2Discuss the extent to which the growth of manufacturing industries affected women's occupations in the British Caribbean after 1940.
11(a)9 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2006 · Paper 2Outline the main factors which enabled the British Caribbean sugar industry to recover from the crisis it faced in the late 1800s.
11(b)16 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2006 · Paper 2Explain why the Cuban sugar industry was more prosperous than the British Caribbean sugar industry in the early 1900s.
12(a)10 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2006 · Paper 2Discuss five factors that were responsible for the development of the bauxite industry in British Guiana (Guyana) and Jamaica in the 1900s.
12(b)15 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2006 · Paper 2Examine the effects of the bauxite industry on the economies of British Guiana (Guyana) and Jamaica.
11(a)13 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2007 · Paper 2Describe the measures which were adopted 'to breathe new life' into the British Caribbean sugar industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
11(b)12 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2007 · Paper 2Explain the effects that these measures had on the sugar industry in the British Caribbean.
1225 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2007 · Paper 2Explain why many British Caribbean farmers expanded their cultivation of crops, other than sugar cane, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
11(a)16 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2008 · Paper 2Explain FOUR factors within the British Caribbean which caused difficulties for the sugar industry between the 1880s and early 1900s.
11(b)9 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2008 · Paper 2Identify THREE factors outside the Caribbean which caused difficulties for the sugar industry between the 1800s and early 1900s.
12(a)9 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2008 · Paper 2Describe THREE factors that encouraged diversification of Caribbean economies in the late 1800s and 1900s.
12(b)16 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2008 · Paper 2Outline FOUR major factors that made possible the growth of industrial enterprises in the British Caribbean since 1945.
11(a)9 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2009 · Paper 2Describe THREE factors that led to the large-scale cultivation of bananas in the Caribbean from the late 1800s.
11(b)16 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2009 · Paper 2Examine FOUR difficulties that affected the Caribbean banana industry during the 1900s.
1225 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2009 · Paper 2Write an essay tracing the development of EITHER the bauxite industry in Guyana OR the oil industry in Trinidad up to 1985, addressing reasons for emergence, growth, challenges faced, and societal impact.
11(a)9 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2010 · Paper 2Describe THREE factors which led to large scale cultivation of rice in Guyana especially from the early 1900s.
11(b)16 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2010 · Paper 2Examine FOUR difficulties which affected the Guyana rice industry during the period 1900–1985.
1225 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2010 · Paper 2Write an essay outlining the stages of development of the bauxite industry in Jamaica up to 1985, identifying the reasons for its emergence, its growth and expansion, problems encountered and its overall impact on…
1125 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2011 · Paper 2Write a letter as a Jamaican banana grower in the late 1900s to an investor, detailing the role of markets (at least three points) and investment capital (at least three points) in the growth and survival of the…
1125 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2012 · Paper 2Imagine you are living in Barbados in 1980 and the island has experienced growth in the tourist industry. Examine the reasons for, and the consequences of, the development of the tourist industry in Barbados.
1225 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2012 · Paper 2As a US investor in Cuba in the second half of the 1800s, examine the factors which led to the growth of the Cuban sugar industry between 1850 and 1890.
1125 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2013 · Paper 2Write a letter to the London Chamber of Commerce evaluating how survival measures improved the Caribbean sugar industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, addressing at least FIVE measures from TWO chosen…
1225 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2013 · Paper 2As a Ministry of Energy employee in Trinidad and Tobago, write a response to an investor providing background information on the petroleum industry, discussing at least FIVE points across TWO selected areas.
1125 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2014 · Paper 2As Secretary of the Caribbean Sugar Producers Association, write a presentation to the 1897 West Indian Royal Commission explaining at least five major factors causing crises in the British Caribbean sugar industry…
1225 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2014 · Paper 2Writing as a final-year university student in 1980 seeking a loan from parents in the UK, write a letter explaining how industrialization improved Caribbean economic prospects.
1125 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2016 · Paper 2As a merchant doing business in the Caribbean, write a letter to the owner of your merchant house examining TWO factors which caused the British Caribbean sugar industry to decline in the late 1800s, and THREE reasons…
1225 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2016 · Paper 2As a woman and active trade unionist in the 1980s, write a report on the bauxite industry examining TWO factors responsible for the development of this industry in Guyana and Jamaica, and THREE effects of the industry…
1125 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2017 · Paper 2As a journalist in early twentieth-century Cuba writing a book on the Cuban sugar industry, explain FIVE factors responsible for the growth of this industry between 1875 and the end of the nineteenth century.
1225 marks· CSEC Caribbean History · May/June 2017 · Paper 2As a merchant in the Caribbean shipping goods to Britain writing a report to investors in London, explain FIVE reasons for the growth of nonsugar agricultural industries in the British Caribbean up to 1935.